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The Knight Bus Altoids tin and other Harry Potter crafts

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bus happy potter knight bus crafts altoids tinCreate a Knight Bus out of an altoids tin like this one by tapestrymlp on flickr. She has a ton of cute Harry Potter crafts and you can look at her set here.

goldensnitch-trial-31Jan of Jan’s Reading Room has experimented with several ways of making a Golden Snitch. These are great although I personally would want a snitch made from a spray painted bouncy ball with felt wings, what good is a snitch if you can’t bounce it?

goldensnitch-earringsCraftster Pinkleo made these golden snitch earrings. Aren’t they fabulous!! It looks like she used a round golden flower bead and feather beads on each side. Very clever!

harrypotterquiltOfenjen of sewhooked.com created an amazing Harry Potter themed quilt and you can see the squares up close if you look at her flickr set.

You may be able to tell that I went to see the movie last night. It was long but good and the Harry Potter world remains so rich with dark and wonderful imagery.

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Sun Activities for Kids

With summer coming soon in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s a fun time to incorporate activities and crafts with a sunny theme. Take some time to learn about the sun (this post from National Geographic Kids is a good one) and then do some sun activities.

Sun prints are a classic summer activity, and there are lots of ways to do them, from placing objects on construction paper (like in this craft from MomBrite) or by using sun print paper (aka cyanotype paper).

Practice threading, counting, color sorting and other skills with this easy sun threading activity from Taming Little Monsters.

Lessons 4 Little Ones has a great blog post full of ideas for science experiments using the sun, such as melting crayons, looking at shadows, making a sun dial and trying a solar oven. Printables to go with the lessons are available for purchase or you can just talk through the students’ hypotheses about what will happen and draw or otherwise record the results.

This updraft tower from Almost Unschoolers is a cool way to illustrate that the heat of the sun causes an updraft, which makes the pinwheel spin. This is a good one to do inside near a sunny window so you don’t have wind spinning the pinwheel instead.

You’ll want to get out in the sun to try this experiment form Life with Moore Babies to see what kinds of things the sun can melt. Using different kinds of sweets you can see how the sun melts things by itself and how you can concentrate the power of the sun with a magnifying glass.

Playing with shadows is fun for kids of all ages, and you can track a shadow through the day with this experiment from Science Sparks. If you’re working with multiple kids they can each choose an object to shadow (ha!) and at the end of the day you can see how different their shadows looked. 

And of course you’ll want to make a sun themed suncatcher craft, right? This one from Fox Farm Home uses all the pretty flowers you collect on your nature walk and puts them in a sun-shaped frame.